Gen. Burnside’s Address to his Troops

NEW YORK, March 19.

The following is Gen. Burnside’s congratulatory address to his troops:

GENERAL ORDER NO. 17.

HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF N. CAROLINA,

NEWBERNE, March 15^th 1862.

The General commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and hard won victory of the 14^th.  Their courage, their patience, their endurance of fatigue, exposure and toil, cannot be too highly praised.  After a tedious march, dragging their howitzers by hand through swamps and thickets; after a sleepless night passed in a drenching rain, they met the enemy in his choice position, found him protected by a strong works mounting many heavy guns, and in an open field themselves, they conquered. – With such soldiers, advance is victory.  The General Commanding directs, with peculiar pride, that, as a well deserved tribute to valor, in this second victory the this expedition, each regiment engaged shall inscribe upon its banner the memorable name ‘Newberne.”  By command of

A. E. BURNSIDE, Brig. Gen.

LEWIS RICHMOND, Adjt. Gen.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 1